Tropical Rain Forests: An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison
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About this book The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests: Contents Preface to the first edition. Preface to the second edition. What are tropical rain forests?
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Where are the tropical rain forests? Origins of the similarities and differences among rain forests.
Building Blocks of the Rain Forest. How many plant species? Rain forests in New Guinea and Australia. Conclusions and future research directions. A Key to Understanding Biogeography and Ecology. Old World versus New World primates. Primates as seed dispersal agents. Herbivores of the forest floor.
Linkages in the Rain Forest Community. Little, brown, insect-eating birds. Fruit size and body size. Comparison of bird communities across continents.
Tropical Rain Forests: An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison, 2nd Edition
Fruit- and nectar-feeding bats. Bats as pollinators and seed dispersal agents. Diverse, Abundant, and Ecologically Important.
Different forests, different threats. The forces behind the threats. Saving the many rain forests. Write a review There are currently no reviews for this book.
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Rain forests in New Guinea and Australia. Conclusions and future research directions.
A Key to Understanding Biogeography and Ecology. Old World versus New World primates. Primates as seed dispersal agents.
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Herbivores of the forest floor. Linkages in the Rain Forest Community.
This is followed by a new chapter on the unique tropical rainforests of oceanic islands. Information on the many areas incorporated into rainforest ecology are included, and help in understanding the function of the diverse systems and the threats against them. This is followed by a new chapter on the unique tropical rainforests of oceanic islands. This exciting and very readable book, illustrated throughout with color photographs, will be invaluable reading for undergraduate students in a wide range of courses as well as an authoritative reference for graduate and professional ecologists, conservationists, and interested amateurs. After an introduction to the environments and geological histories of the major rain forest regions, subsequent chapters focus on plants, primates, carnivores and plant-eaters, birds, fruit bats and gliding animals, and insects, with an emphasis on the ecological and biogeographical differences between regions.
Little, brown, insect-eating birds. Fruit size and body size. Comparison of bird communities across continents.
The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests: an Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison exploded the myth of 'the rain forest' as a single. Description. The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests: an Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison exploded the myth of 'the rain forest' as a single, uniform.
Fruit- and nectar-feeding bats. Bats as pollinators and seed dispersal agents. Diverse, Abundant, and Ecologically Important. Different forests, different threats. The forces behind the threats. Saving the many rain forests. I enjoyed it, I learned from it and I recommend it. It will be of value to academics, researchers and students, and, due to its accessible style and illustrations, it will appeal to many others too.
Columbus would have found it helpful-but over half a millennium later so might many of us.